Hannah Pohlit
Researcher
Hannah Pohlit studied biomedical chemistry at Mainz University in Germany with the main subjects analytical chemistry and immunology. Her PhD at Mainz University was about degradable and protein-loaded poly(ethylene glycol) nanocarriers for allergy therapy where she both synthesized the polymer, formulated the nanoparticles and did the physical and biological characterization. Hannah moved to Uppsala for a short postdoc in Jöns Hilborn’s group at the polymer chemistry division where she tailor-made hydrogels for cell cultures. In 2018, Hannah started working as a postdoc in Maria Tenje’s group at Uppsala University, focussing on thin hydrogel membranes for cell cultures in microfluidic devices (organ-on-chip applications).
Shno Asad
PhD student
Shno Asad graduated with a Master’s degree in pharmacy and chemistry from the University of Gothenburg in January 2019. Her current work aims to develop a new strategy to diagnose and treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) using functional nanomaterials. By creating an oral vehicle that incorporates magnetic nanoparticles, she aims to establish a noninvasive diagnostic approach, as well as to deliver therapeutics in a localized manner for a more efficient and targeted treatment.
Awards
Best poster award at ICONAN 2019 (International Conference on Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology), Munich, Germany.
Shaquib Rahman Ansari
PhD student
Shaquib Rahman Ansari graduated from the University of Copenhagen with an MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences and has worked with liposomal vaccines for intra-pulmonary delivery. His current research goal is to develop stimuli-responsive oral drug delivery systems, e.g. by magnetic hyperthermia, to facilitate non-invasive local delivery of macromolecular drugs in the intestine.
Yuming Zhang
PhD student
Yuming Zhang graduated with an MSc in Medical Biology from Linköping University in 2021, with a focus on the development of gold nanoparticle-based vaccines. The aim of her PhD research is to develop a non-invasive diagnostic method for early detection of colorectal cancer using functionalized superparamagnetic nanoparticles.
Yael del Carmen Suárez López
PhD student
Yael del Carmen Suárez López received a BSc. in Biotechnology Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Afterwards, she was awarded an EMJMD Scholarship to carry out a MSc. in Nanomedicine for drug delivery at University of Paris. She completed her master thesis on NIR-luminescent nanoparticles for selective oligonucleotide detection at the Karolinska Institute before joining the TelekiLab. Her current research aims to engineer iron oxide-based magnetic biosensors to quantify inflammatory bowel disease activity by magnetic imaging techniques such as MRI and MPI.
Paarkavi Udayakumar
PhD student
Paarkavi Udayakumar has a background in biotechnology from the school of bioengineering at SRM IST in India. She holds an MSc in Drug Discovery and Development from Uppsala University. During her MSc thesis and research assistantship at the TelekiLab, she worked on the development of an advanced vaginal drug delivery system. Her current work as a PhD student focuses on microneedle based vaginal drug delivery system for the treatment of vaginal diseases. The aim is to attain a sustained release of the drug using lipid based nanocarriers packed into the mucopenetrative microneedles.
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